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In Reply to: correction with more detail than you probably want posted by Carol on August 16, 2004 at 11:02:15:
It makes perfect sense to me that they would rate high in "openness to change" because their whole lives have been so full of change.
I would think it would be difficult to get valid results overall since family kids, like North Korean kids, are so programmed in how to answer and react so they learn from an early age to have a PR self and an object self. It seems one of the most disturbing things of all is that a kid or long termer leaving the family, (but especially a kid) would have huge depression and anxiety issues because they have not had a chance to develop much of their own ego due to group think.
Do you do research in the area of high control groups? Have scales been developed to examine kids from high control groups such as Khmer Rouge, Cults, Stringent religious systems, before and after? I can't imagine any accuracy from standardized tests due to control factors.
I watched a documentary once on this family from Thailand where the mother left and went back and got her kids, and they got some counseling but appeared to have had insufficient counseling at best because they never broke thru that cult persona, probably due to the anxiety and they returned to the group. Did you see that?
I am very interested in what you think of tests used and if you are working on developing any for kids from high control groups.
What kind of info is out there on this subject now? Do you have any interesting links? Thanks for the post on this subject. I am glad there is someone with your training COMBINED with your experience to examine these issues.
